Civic Tour Launches City Flavor

Offering the most engaging experiences and promotions in the tour’s history, the 2017 Civic Tour will debut ‘Civic Tour City Flavor,’ a pop-up food experience in select markets. Music and culinary fans everywhere can follow exclusive backstage livestream of Civic Tour City Flavor content featuring some of the most infamous food trucks and local cuisine of some of America’s beloved cities via Honda Stage social channels: honda.us/CityFlavor. Civic Tour City Flavor will include appearances from chefs, OneRepublic, Fitz and the Tantrums, James Arthur as well as YouTube singer-songwriters and social media stars.

Civic Tour City Flavor’s first stop will be in Detroit at the DTE Energy Music Center, with stops in Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and Dallas areas.

“We’ve always really loved immersing ourselves in the cities we travel to,” said Ryan Tedder. “We came up with the Honda Civic Tour City Flavor promotion as a way to combine our love for music and food. We can’t wait to bring some of the best food trucks chefs in the country backstage to our shows for our fans, our crew and us to enjoy.”

This year has seen new music from OneRepublic starting with the release of “No Vacancy” in April and more recently, “Truth To Power,” last month. “Truth To Power” was written and produced by Ryan Tedder and T Bone Burnett and will be featured in Paramount Pictures and Participant Media’s film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power,” out in theaters July 28^th. Just last week OneRepublic released “Rich Love,” a collaboration with Norwegian production trio Seeb. Listen to “Rich Love” here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6hAQjW9Aw. 

Civic Tour Fan Involvement

For 2017, OneRepublic took the all-new Honda Civic Type R and 2017 Honda Rebel motorcycle to the next level by designing their very own special-edition vehicles for Honda Civic Tour. These custom, autographed rides are joining the band on the road this summer, and fans can catch them at each stop of the 2017 Honda Civic Tour. The OneRepublic custom Civic Type R – the most powerful production Honda ever sold in the US –  is inspired by the band’s love of modern architecture and clean design. The red accents, mixed with a combination of gloss and matte black, complete this one-of-a-kind vehicle.

Throughout the duration of the tour, fans will have the opportunity to enter in the Honda Civic Tour Sweepstakes for a chance to win multiple experiences, including the “Which Civic R You?” sweepstakes that highlights the Civic line up, noting “there is a Civic out there for everyone.” One lucky winner will get to drive home in their choice of a brand new 2017 Honda Civic Sedan, Coupe, Hatchback, Si or Type R. Civic Tour fans also will have the opportunity to cruise away on a Honda Rebel motorcycle, plus the chance to fly out to Los Angeles to see OneRepublic live on the Civic Tour courtesy of Honda Financial Services. For complete rules and to enter online, please visit www.HondaCivicTour.com.

About OneRepublic

OneRepublic released their debut set Dreaming Out Loud in 2007. The album included the smash single Apologize, which shattered digital sales and airplay records worldwide and received a Grammy nomination. The band’s sophomore album, 2009’s Waking Up, produced three singles: All the Right Moves, Secrets and Good Life.

OneRepublic’s third studio album Native, was released in March 2013 and produced the hit singles If I Lose Myself, Feel Again, Love Runs Out, I Lived and their biggest song to date Counting Stars, which reached #1 in 54 countries and has sold over 10 million downloads. Native sold over 5 million units worldwide.  Their latest album Oh My My, featuring the hit singles “Wherever I Go,” “Kids” and new single “Let’s Hurt Tonight,” was released in the fall of 2016 on Mosley/Interscope Records and debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.  OneRepublic joined U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 on four dates before kicking off the Honda Civic Tour this summer. onerepublic.com

qAbout Honda Civic Tour

With 4.5 million fans having attending Honda Civic Tour concert events since 2001, Civic Tour has established itself as one of the nation’s most compelling, successful music concert tour franchises. Civic Tour offers concert-goers with an exclusive, interactive and engaging concert experience featuring up-close and personal access to their favorite music performers, and has done so for over 15 years. Past Civic Tour artists have included One Direction, Maroon 5, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Linkin Park, blink-182, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, The Black Eyed Peas, Fall Out Boy, Everclear, Incubus, Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional and Panic! at the Disco. In 2014, the Civic Tour become a pillar of the Honda Stage music program, expanding its reach beyond live events to an expanded online audience. www.HondaCivicTour.com

Los Angeles-based Fitz and The Tantrums have quickly grown from independent upstarts to bonafide hitmakers.  Their current album – titled Fitz and The Tantrums (Elektra) – was released last summer and features their biggest hit to date, “HandClap.”  The RIAA-certified Gold single has already gone top 5 on both the Hot AC and Alternative Radio charts, and is currently ascending the Top 40 Radio charts.  Fitz and The Tantrums’ eponymous album follows their breakout major label debut, 2013’s More Than Just A Dream, which featured back-to-back #1 Alternative Radio singles in the RIAA-certified Platinum “The Walker” and the RIAA-certified Gold “Out Of My League.”   Both singles also enjoyed Top 15 success at Hot AC.  The band has performed countless, sold out headlining shows and is always a standout at music festivals around the world, including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and more.  The band’s first full length album, 2010’s Pickin’ Up The Pieces (released on indie label Dangerbird Records), spent 73 weeks on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, peaking at #1.  For more information visit www.fitzandthetantrums.com

James Arthur

James Arthur was crowned the winner of The X Factor U.K.’s ninth season in 2012. His debut single “Impossible” became the biggest X Factor winner’s song of all time, selling more than 1 million downloads and topping charts for several weeks. The buzz around the Middlesbrough-born singer was different to previous champions. He was regarded as the show’s first credible artist; James not only possessed showman-like qualities with an incredible, distinctive voice, but he could back up his stage presence with natural song-writing ability. Following two years away from the spotlight, James returned last fall with his single “Say You Won’t Let Go.” The song shot straight to #1 in his native U.K., where it remained for 3 consecutive weeks. Last fall, James released his second album entitled Back From The Edge, which again went straight to #1 in the U.K. “Say You Won’t Let Go” has topped iTunes charts in more than 20 countries and has since gone on to sell more than 3 million downloads, more than 350 million streams at Spotify, and a quarter of a billion total views at Vevo/YouTube around the globe.  For more information please visit www.jamesarthurofficial.com.

Cisco will serve as the Official Wi-Fi and Digital Network Architecture partner of the Honda Civic Tour featuring OneRepublic. Cisco technology is designed so that OneRepublic and their production staff can reliably connect anytime and anywhere with industry leading security, thereby enhancing collaboration and productivity while also enabling new ways for them to engage with fans. For more information about Cisco visit www.cisco.com.

OneRepublic and Hilton Honors, the official hotel sponsor of the tour, are inviting fans to discover some of the world’s great music destinations through original content and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Together they will enable Hilton Honors members to enjoy behind the scenes access, meet the band, and experience world-class hospitality.